Monday, 4 June 2012

Here are Elder Kay's 2 latest emails. He has promised to send some photos to his brother as for some reason my email account won't accept them, so we will post them as soon as we can (his brother is away until Thursday)

28th May

Hello all from up in Townsville,This week has been overcast and rainy. I've been freezing hahaha.

It's been good
to get to know the area a little, it's easier than I thought it would
be. We've
been delivering letters to less actives all over Townsville; the Branch
President wrote a letter to all the less actives. It's a great
idea. President is great, we go round his house every Sunday with some of the
members of the ward to have dinner, it's awesome, there are some great families.
The Branch president has high expectations (as he should). I decided that when we do deliver the letters we could knock a
door either side of the house to find more people. Tracting is where you get all the funny
experiences me thinks. I love you all and pray for you,
give my regards to the Branch and all, . HEAPS of love

Elder John Kay

4th JuneThis week has been such gloomy weather, it's been good but
we bought some milo and timtams to get us through the glooms so we had a timtam slam :P, which is when you bite the ends of the
timtamand then you suck milo through it like a straw until you can taste
the milo then all the inside is all soft and the chocolate melts and
its just deviiinee :P,

The work has been pretty good this week, we've mainly
been getting these letters to the less actives that I mentioned last
week so I'm getting to know the area well. We found this great
guy yesterday who is Catholic, I'm not sure how successful we'll be
with him but I can see him as a member of the church :D we wont be
going back until after the 13th though because he has exams. His name
is David, he's south African and he's doing electronic and
electrical engineering. It was funny actually because at first he wasn't all
thatinterested in even talking much about religion but then I asked for
a drink (because it was the first hot day we'd had all week and we were on
bikes) and we got talking and we gave him a book of Mormon so weshall see.
Townville is Beautiful but looks a bit gloomy in the rain so I've not really
taken any pictures of the landscape or area but I'll send some pictures of us
to Michael

One of the members of my ward said I would be good at
remedial therapy, she was fixing Elder Fox's neck and I noticed the slight
changes that show when you press the muscles and wait for the body to
respond, somaybe something to think about we'll see, she said you don't
really need maths either,

I really don't know what I want for my Birthday, I don't want to
accumulate alot of stuff while I'm up here because I can only take one
suitcase back south when I leave Townsville,

We move out of our flat on the 1st of July I think - the owner wants top sell it. The
senior couple are working so hard to find another one for us but flats are hard to come by up
here,

I hope you are all well, my best wishes and love goes with you
all. I know the Church is true, it contains the very gospel that our Lord and
Saviour taught and I know that he lives as does our Father in heaven. I know
the book of Mormon was translated by the power of God by a wounderful Prophet
named Joseph Smith who truly saw what he said he saw - Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ. In the nameof him who died to save us all, Jesus Christ
Amen.

About Me

Elder John Kay's Mission

Elder Kay will serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brisbane Australia for two years from December 2011. I will be posting excerpts from his emails and photos to keep his friends up to date. If you would like to write to him please address your letters to